Phonetic Families & Components
Sound Roots & Semantic Radicals Explorer
Decode Chinese characters by their shared sound roots and see how semantic radicals split their meanings across tones.
Popular Roots:
呈
8
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (呈)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 2chéng
Tone 3chěng
Tone 4zèng
Tone 5
Family Characters (8)
Root: 呈呈
chéng
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to present / to assume